MisterNeon
Even with billions of cacao beans exchanges, Aztec cacao sellers took great measures to disguise their fake cacao. According to Bernard Sahagun, a Spaniard documenting Aztec lives, cacao sellers processed fakes using hot ashes, chalk, and a generous coating of amaranth dough, wax, or avocado pits (Coe 100). To further camouflage their counterfeit cacao, sellers mixed the fake cacao with pure Theobroma cacao beans. Other cacao deception experts exploited empty shells by filling the insides with mud (De Maré).
Sahagun was one of the first westerners to document the indigenous people of Mexico.
We've never met.
Fuck yes! I want the goddamn top score!
One: Women would use indigo hair dye called xiuquilitl to turn their hair blue.
Two: In Tenochtitlán human waste would be collected from public toilets for fertilizer. Thus it was someone's job to sail the "poop canoe" to deliver night soil.
Three: Only a certain type of cacao was used as currency. Counterfeiting was rampant.
You try finding a qualified lapidarist in 2025. You can't Fiver that. Nobody wants to work anymore. I'm good for the cacao beans needed to pay the bill.
Aztec Emperor. Tlatoani translates to "he who speaks" when you add Huey/Hueyi it means "grand/great".
I covet the turquoise diadem and a cloak of quetzal feathers.
I declare myself Huey Tlatoani. I expect tribute from y'all by the end of the day.
It's because as a species humans are fucked up.
That's probably why I don't understand it.
I never understand what these comics are trying to say or communicate.
The flag of Switzerland is always a plus.